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On the River Oise

On the River Oise

Artist: Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817 - 1878)

Date: c. 1870
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions:
Framed: 18 x 21 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. (45.7 x 54 x 5.7 cm)
Canvas: 8 3/4 x 12 1/4 in. (22.2 x 31.1 cm)
Credit Line:Bequest, Dr. Levi W. Mengel
Object number: 1915.138.1

The river Oise was one of Daubigny's most recurring subjects. He set up a studio in Auvers-sur-Oise, travelling up and down the river on his "Le botin" — his ‘floating studio” on a ferry — with his son and pupil Karl, every spring from 1857 onwards. Corot joined him regularly from 1860.

Monet, who would launch a studio boat of his own in 1873, kept a small landscape by Daubigny on his studio wall for inspiration when he began his career. It was Daubigny, moreover, who promoted Monet and Pissarro when all three artists sought shelter in London during the Franco-Prussian War.

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